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authorWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-08-16 12:22:46 +0200
committerWladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com>2016-08-16 12:22:54 +0200
commit4374f0ee35f8f617320ef603a23f3bdc1964d2d0 (patch)
tree1510945cc0ef228599194f374c6e72974cfd8bdf
parentb52c67c4b188c274de60fbd5e26441e9a644dba6 (diff)
parent2f5858952e968ff0d93eeb704a480a095f7c9adf (diff)
downloadbitcoin-4374f0ee35f8f617320ef603a23f3bdc1964d2d0.tar.xz
Merge #8519: [0.13] A few small improvements to the 0.13 release notes
2f58589 Mention dump/import support for HD wallets (Pieter Wuille) fe20b83 Remove refactors from list of changes (Pieter Wuille) 7f84015 Inline mempool RPCs and feefilter into misc sections (Pieter Wuille)
-rw-r--r--doc/release-notes.md44
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index ea6e569272..ba8ad71beb 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ For nodes on low-memory systems, the database cache can be changed back to
Note that the database cache setting has the most performance impact
during initial sync of a node, and when catching up after downtime.
+
bitcoin-cli: arguments privacy
--------------------------------
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ It is recommended to use this for sensitive information such as wallet
passphrases, as command-line arguments can usually be read from the process
table by any user on the system.
+
C++11 and Python 3
-------------------
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ When cross-compiling for a target that doesn't have C++11 libraries, configure w
For running the functional tests in `qa/rpc-tests`, Python3.4 or higher is now
required.
+
Linux ARM builds
------------------
@@ -104,20 +107,6 @@ possible to resolve them.
Note that Android is not considered ARM Linux in this context. The executables
are not expected to work out of the box on Android.
-New mempool information RPC calls
----------------------------------
-
-RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool
-entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a
-transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`.
-
-Fee filtering of invs (BIP 133)
-------------------------------------
-
-The optional new p2p message "feefilter" is implemented and the protocol
-version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer,
-a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter
-feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki)
Compact Block support (BIP 152)
-------------------------------
@@ -130,6 +119,7 @@ cases it also reduces propagation delay. It is automatically enabled between
compatible peers.
[BIP 152](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0152.mediawiki)
+
Hierarchical Deterministic Key Generation
-----------------------------------------
Newly created wallets will use hierarchical deterministic key generation
@@ -142,6 +132,10 @@ ones which haven't already been generated during the time of the backup.
**Attention:** Encrypting the wallet will create a new seed which requires
a new backup!
+Wallet dumps (created using the `dumpwallet` RPC) will contain the deterministic
+seed. This is expected to allow future versions to import the seed and all
+associated funds, but this is not yet implemented.
+
HD key generation for new wallets can be disabled by `-usehd=0`. Keep in
mind that this flag only has affect on newly created wallets.
You can't disable HD key generation once you have created a HD wallet.
@@ -152,6 +146,7 @@ HD wallets are incompatible with older versions of Bitcoin Core.
[Pull request](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/8035/files), [BIP 32](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki)
+
Segregated Witness
------------------
@@ -174,6 +169,7 @@ BIP 141 activation, mine segwit blocks, fully validate segwit blocks, relay
segwit blocks to other segwit nodes, and use segwit transactions in the
wallet, etc).
+
Mining transaction selection ("Child Pays For Parent")
------------------------------------------------------
@@ -232,6 +228,7 @@ using the command line option `-reindex-chainstate` (in addition to
are assumed to be fine, but the chainstate is still corrupted. It is also
useful for benchmarks.
+
Removal of internal miner
--------------------------
@@ -246,9 +243,15 @@ For testing, the `generate` call can still be used to mine a block, and a new
RPC call `generatetoaddress` has been added to mine to a specific address. This
works with wallet disabled.
+
Low-level P2P changes
----------------------
+- The optional new p2p message "feefilter" is implemented and the protocol
+ version is bumped to 70013. Upon receiving a feefilter message from a peer,
+ a node will not send invs for any transactions which do not meet the filter
+ feerate. [BIP 133](https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0133.mediawiki)
+
- The P2P alert system has been removed in PR #7692 and the `alert` P2P message
is no longer supported.
@@ -276,9 +279,14 @@ Low-level P2P changes
- Connections to peers who have recently been the first one to give us a valid
new block or transaction are protected from disconnections since PR #8084.
+
Low-level RPC changes
----------------------
+- RPC calls have been added to output detailed statistics for individual mempool
+ entries, as well as to calculate the in-mempool ancestors or descendants of a
+ transaction: see `getmempoolentry`, `getmempoolancestors`, `getmempooldescendants`.
+
- `gettxoutsetinfo` UTXO hash (`hash_serialized`) has changed. There was a divergence between
32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and the txids were missing in the hashed data. This has been
fixed, but this means that the output will be different than from previous versions.
@@ -315,6 +323,7 @@ Low-level RPC changes
- New options were added to `fundrawtransaction`: `includeWatching`, `changeAddress`, `changePosition` and `feeRate`.
+
Low-level ZMQ changes
----------------------
@@ -324,6 +333,7 @@ Low-level ZMQ changes
therefore backward compatible. Each message type has its own counter.
PR [#7762](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7762).
+
0.13.0 Change log
=================
@@ -541,10 +551,8 @@ git merge commit are mentioned.
- #7649 `4900641` Prevent multiple calls to CWallet::AvailableCoins (promag)
- #7646 `e5c3511` Fix lockunspent help message (promag)
- #7558 `b35a591` Add import/removeprunedfunds rpc call (instagibbs)
-- #7691 `30c2dd8` Refactor wallet/init interaction (jonasschnelli)
- #6215 `48c5adf` add bip32 pub key serialization (jonasschnelli)
- #7913 `bafd075` Fix for incorrect locking in GetPubKey() (keystore.cpp) (yurizhykin)
-- #7816 `0c95ebc` Slighly refactor GetOldestKeyPoolTime() (jonasschnelli)
- #8036 `41138f9` init: Move berkeleydb version reporting to wallet (laanwj)
- #8028 `373b50d` Fix insanity of CWalletDB::WriteTx and CWalletTx::WriteToDisk (pstratem)
- #8061 `f6b7df3` Improve Wallet encapsulation (pstratem)
@@ -589,11 +597,9 @@ git merge commit are mentioned.
- #7764 `a65b36c` Don't run pruning.py twice (MarcoFalke)
- #7773 `7c80e72` Fix comments in tests (btcdrak)
- #7489 `e9723cb` tests: Make proxy_test work on travis servers without IPv6 (laanwj)
-- #7778 `ff5874b` Bug fixes and refactor (MarcoFalke)
- #7801 `70ac71b` Remove misleading "errorString syntax" (MarcoFalke)
- #7803 `401c65c` maxblocksinflight: Actually enable test (MarcoFalke)
- #7802 `3bc71e1` httpbasics: Actually test second connection (MarcoFalke)
-- #7818 `3911a0a` Refactor script tests (sipa)
- #7849 `ab8586e` tests: add varints_bitpatterns test (laanwj)
- #7846 `491171f` Clean up lockorder data of destroyed mutexes (sipa)
- #7853 `6ef5e00` py2: Unfiddle strings into bytes explicitly (MarcoFalke)
@@ -609,7 +615,6 @@ git merge commit are mentioned.
- #7814 `77b637f` Switch to py3 (MarcoFalke)
- #8030 `409a8a1` Revert fatal-ness of missing python-zmq (laanwj)
- #8018 `3e90fe6` Autofind rpc tests --srcdir (jonasschnelli)
-- #7971 `4e14afe` Refactor test_framework and pull tester (MarcoFalke)
- #8016 `5767e80` Fix multithread CScheduler and reenable test (paveljanik)
- #7972 `423ca30` pull-tester: Run rpc test in parallel (MarcoFalke)
- #8039 `69b3a6d` Bench: Add crypto hash benchmarks (laanwj)
@@ -653,7 +658,6 @@ git merge commit are mentioned.
- #7663 `c87f51e` Make the generate RPC call function for non-regtest (sipa)
- #7671 `e2ebd25` Add generatetoaddress RPC to mine to an address (achow101)
- #7935 `66ed450` Versionbits: GBT support (luke-jr)
-- #7598 `e1486eb` Refactor CreateNewBlock to be a method of the BlockAssembler class (morcos)
- #7600 `66db2d6` Select transactions using feerate-with-ancestors (sdaftuar)
- #8295 `f5660d3` Mining-related fixups for 0.13.0 (sdaftuar)
- #7796 `536b75e` Add support for negative fee rates, fixes `prioritizetransaction` (MarcoFalke)